Welcome to your Australian Saturday Daily. As an Apple fan, the first thing I have to mention is the release of new MacBook Pro models yesterday. There is much excitement about these new models at Sidepodcast headquarters because of the inclusion of a new technology called Thunderbolt. Remarkably similar to Thunderbirds (Are GO!), I am reliably informed that it has also quickly been accepted by non-computery type people here. I make no comment on the name as I was always taught that if you can't say anything nice…
I suggest reading the Wiki entry on Thunderbolt and if you still have questions, ask here in the comments as there are plenty of experts. I was informed many years ago that Apple commissioned Intel to create the technology, but I have no proof so lets just go with wikipedia on this one. Besides, who really cares? Yes, I am a nerd... :p
In real world terms, I am looking forward to being able to hook up two high resolution displays to a laptop but as with any new technology, it will take time for it to filter out into the marketplace and for peripherals to appear. I am officially excited!
There is an advert on Australian TV at the moment that mention the price of petrol in 1991 was 60 cents per litre. It currently sits at around $1.30 per litre in Sydney. How much was it in your part of the world at that time and how much is it now?
Money. It's not a comfortable subject for most of us. But thanking the good people at Sidepodcast? Easy. I'm going to give them some money. Maybe you should too? I am reminded of this awesome post from Janna last year. Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANNA!
Crashed Ice. What a name for a band! Oh, it's not a band, it's some kind of ice skating race thingy on in Moscow today. It's on at 3:45pm London time and you can look on Sidepodcast for people talking about it, or look at the Red Bull website.
The genius that is Lukeh strikes again.
I'll leave you today with one of Australia's (maybe even the whole world's) favourite songs by AC/DC. There are several youtube videos for you because I want a green Holden ute, and they explain how I was reminded of this (thunderbolt is similar to thunderstruck right?)
- Interesting Need For Speed video that I like, but cuts a tiny bit off the end of the song.
- AC/DC Thunderstruck - Live at Donington
- Holden VU Ute Commercial
- Holden Ute evolution, ending in GREEN!
Hi Saturday. Thunderstruck is awesome, I must buy that (and the album).
Ping - http://thoughtsofpat.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/a-round-of-golf-20th-feb-11/
I renamed my personal blog and wrote about my (quite bad.. but not really) round of golf.
Yay!
Happy birthday, Janna!
Yes, Many Happy Returns Janna.
Happy Birthday Janna :)
yay, have a good day janna!
happy birthday janna and thank you so much for australian daily, jeremy.
Aw it says the last link in the daily isn't available
It was working for me a couple of seconds ago but now not.
It's also not the 27th
I fixed that once already. I give up.
must be time for bed, 2am is not Christine like!
Must be.
Tomorrow is the annual Italian Festival in Melbourne, for some reason there will be a Red Bull car there. Ferrari would make more sense.
They're also trying to make the worlds biggest pizza so I want to go along on the chance I might get to eat some.
or torro rosso.
ahh yes, I don't think the Italians in town get behind them though.
who does? :)
:D :D
time for sleeps. night amy and any lurkers.
night night :)
"MARK Webber said the return of the Australian Grand Prix to pole position on the formula one calendar would help quell renewed calls for the race to be axed.
Webber said rumblings surrounding the cost of the event always surfaced as it drew closer but the fact Australia had replaced Bahrain as the season-opener would boost the GP."
oh Mr Webber, I hope you're right
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/motorsport/melbourne-start-helps-stave-off-axe-talk-20110225-1b8np.html
Off to the airport. I had such a great time with Bassano and his friend. I'll comment from there if I have time. I hope I do.
oh, and Delta 211 out of Prague into JFK, leaving 12:30 or so. :)
Hope you have a safe journey.
Cleaning finished, birthday can begin :)
Thank you for all the birthday wishes.
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Jannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnna,
Happy Birthday to you!
Morning all
Happy Birthday Janna.
Safe flight Kai, I can't believe your trip is over already
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Janna! :-) (=Happy Birthday, Janna)
Janna this caused a little bit of a discussion here at home so I have recorded that discussion here for you: http://audioboo.fm/boos/288516-happy-birthday-to-janna
Alex, you are nuts & I (heart) you for it. Thank you
Happy birthday Janna :D
#sidepodspace
I picked up all the following info from the superb Spaceflight Now site that Pat linked to on the day of the launch rather than hacking through 50 pages of PDF on the NASA site to find them. This site sells NASA far better than NASA does.
The shuttle will dock with the ISS today and the first thing to watch out for is the backflip manouvre that lets the ISS crew photograph the underside of the shuttle to check for damage. This provides some of the best footage of the whole mission with the shuttle backflipping with the Earth in the background. The times listed are Eastern so add 5 hours for the UK or if you are anywhere else in the world I suggest you do your own conversion as my record with time zones is not great.
THere are two spacewalks on the mission on Monday and Wednesday with the shuttle landing scheduled for the following Monday.
# 1:06 p.m. EST: Discovery backflip
# Feb. 26: Docking to space station @ 2:19 p.m.
# Feb. 28: Spacewalk No. 1 @ 11:15 a.m.
# March 1: Install cargo module on station
# March 2: Spacewalk No. 2 @ 10:15 a.m.
# March 5: Undocking from station @ 7:47 a.m.
# March 7: LANDING in Florida @ 12:47 p.m. EST
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/status.html
One other thing I learned today which I should have figured out before is that Steve Bowen who is replacing Tim Kopra after his bike accident also flew on the last shuttle mission so becomes the first person to fly consecutive missions. What I have yet to find out is if this means NASA no longer has back up crews for each mission. Not to have them would seem short-sighted but someone can't train for one mission while they are training for and flying the preceeding mission. It's not like NASA is short of astronauts.
Thanks for the #sidepodspace updates Steven.
I was talking about the shuttle launch at work and one of the girls asked me how I know about things. I explained that I talk to people on the internet who are interested and share their knowledge.
Sidepodcast, teaching you something new every day :)
I am happy to do it
Me too. This site Pat found is so much better than NASA. They have even figured out how to embed NASA TV on a page with other stuff on it and the feed loads about ten times faster there than at NASA.
Am off out shortly to start my birthday celebrations. I apologise in advance for any comments &/or tweets which may be written under the influence of alcohol ;)
Have a great day. I am sure we will for give any alcohol induced comments although we will log them to embarrass you later. :D
I'm sure your tweets will be amazini
No not us... ;)
:D
i like this as a sales pitch:
"GP+ costs £25. Half a tank of fuel in Europe."
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/earning-the-right-to-comment/#comment-41618
Hehehehe!
Excellent :)
Afternoon all. I've just been to let some dogs out. Nice to get air, although the rain showers meant we cancelled golf (possibly prematurely).
So much traffic..
Time for me to head out an give some much valued advice to a football referee. THey really appreciate.
Those of you who are staying inside where it is safe enjoy Crashed Ice and space stuff and whatever else takes your fancy.
For those of you heading outside I have one thing to say. Let's be careful out there.
:)
Crashed Ice is on a bit earlier today. 15:45.
:)
Dad texted to ask if I want to do golf after all. I feel lazy, like I could doze all day, so we'll try tomorrow. Maybe haven't recovered from last Sunday after all! Soo unfit.
It's OK, I didn't go running today :D It was 30 degrees (too hot to run) and then it rained (too wet to run) and then it was night time (too dark to run)
heheh!!
I am mad at the weather now, tomorrow I have a friend coming over for dinner and how am I expected to run in the evening with that sort of event going on. Booo.
afternoon lovely people, and super duper happy birthday to Janna!! my HTC tried to correct happy te harrowing... so far off the mark and certainly not true :)
:D
However I do have to go to the shop. It just happens to be near the pasty shop. And Costa Coffee.
Italian pasty and a large mocha.
Ping: http://www.f1bigpicture.com/news/working-lunch
Curious, what makes the pasty Italian?
I have no idea. There was a list of ingredients but hunger overrode the patience to stand and read it. :)
Double bonus: each of these items counts as 'trying new things'.
Hehehe, as long as it was yum that's all that matters :)
my new thing today was checking another flavour off the list at the hot chocolate cafe.
White Chocolate with Hazelnut. It was amazing. I am tempted to stop my flavour hunt already, even with 23 untried.
I have to wrestle with a whole chicken today and Mr C is trying to convince me to stuff it. I'm not sure that's going to happen.
ooh it has peperoni in it
sounds fantastic
I prefer the taste of stuffing when it wasn't actually in the chicken anyway. So I'm not sure why we call it stuffing, its more 'breadcrumbs and herbs and stuff in a bowl'
Italy vs Wales rugby, they are doing the anthems now and the Italian one is always great there
I had it iced since it was so hot and it was delicious. I need a cold day so I can try it as a hot chocolate, as its meant to be.
I will throw to the comments for suggestions on the next one I should try http://www.fraus.com.au/the_fraus_range/hot_chocolate_flavours.asp although theres a few missing off that list, like the rasperry and the pistachio that I've tried in the past.
Oh that's touching.. Each 6 Nations game this weekend will have a moment's silence for Christchurch.
aw thats nice of them. They did that at the Super Rugby yesterday, a few people coming in off the concourse outside near me halfway through looked very confused.
http://patwotton.posterous.com/big-dogs
wimp
Good lord.
You do it.
I should be mad at this match though, it's whats keeping the tennis off ESPN and it's a Federer v Djokovic final :( It's why I'm still awake :D If only ESPN2 had already started :(
i don't cook. i'll take you out for roast dinner if you like?
Hehehe!
Stuffing is easy when it is done separately, at least the one from the pack is, learned that at Christmas when I made it at Mum's. :) I imagine actually putting it in the bird is difficult.
Translation:
I quite like McDonald's drive thru
:)
Toro Rosso would have made even more sense, since it's made in Italy and owned by Red Bull. Ho-hum...
http://patwotton.posterous.com/italian-pasty-has-peperoni
(sorry Posterous wasn't playing, it is now)
I have a UK question: You know how there are websites where you plug in where you need to go when and it tells you the cheapest flights, is there an airline like that for car rentals? My mum wants me to help her find the best option but I have never rented a car in my life and know little about the process :)
3 minutes gone, Wales scored already..
I'm still recovering from just the sight of a mobile sugar rush I noticed in work
There's probably a web stream somewhere
aye, I'll be watching it on bet365 but it's not the same, I've watched the rest of the tournament on the telly :(
Banana hot chocolate sounds interesting.
And nougat.
I don't know who I want to win. Wales because they are a UK team playing a non-UK team, but Italy because they keep losing and they are underdogs.
I would suggest cooking the stuffing separately... And just putting a Lemon inside the chicken (pricked with a fork)
My recipe does say lemons but the shop only had bags of them, not single ones. I don't want six lemons, it's just one chicken.
mum does that too! soo yummy! :)
when
lifethe shop gives you lemons, make lemonade?It's a pain when that happens. Luckily my Sainsbobs has loose lemons too.
I believe it was a secret handed down to me over the ages by Nigel Slater ;)
tis never an issue I have, lemons are one of my favourite fruits to snack on. Mmmm sour and tasty.
Make a pancake for afters!
We're being all efficient today as Katherine is baking and using Lemon rind in her cake, and the curry I'm making has lemon juice in it!
We couldn't have actually planned for this to work... Only by chance.
OOhh, I love eating lemons. Back from pub lunch with two large glasses of rose. 4 hours until next celebration commences when we are going to the carvery for a roast dinner :)
I beg your pardon?
You just eat lemons like they were an orange or something?
cut them in half, scoop out the insides with a spoon, om nom nom.
Yes, really sour, fabulous
Just reading that makes my mouth go 'nngngngn'
sooo pleased i'm not the only one.
That sounds as crazy as having mint sauce on all kinds of meat... madness...
When I was a kid they started out absolutely covered in sugar but as I got older I put less and less sugar until I had none. My family kept the sugar on theirs, so they think I'm odd.
Wow. :o
You're the exact opposite of me. I'm allergic to even the slightest drop of lemon juice...
I really want to try a lemon now. In the general eating type of way.
A few people in my office have had that reaction after watching me eat them, it doesn't tend to end well for them :D
afternoon folks
Hi! How are you?
ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-crashed-ice-round-3-moscow-russia
Not too bad Sandy,
Just been busy writing t'is all - how are you?
boo tennis has started and is super buffery :(
Hahaha, I'm exactly the same! Not doing too bad either and have spent the larger part of the day writing (bloody thesis...).
{Blog-Post} Something for the Weekend: Delta 5 "Anticipation" http://tinyurl.com/5stqryg
(ever so slight language warning...)
oooh, a chicken has arrived.
Want. :)
it was very nice. no doubt she'll blog it, but i am now full :)
Nationwide Series race (with Danica) at 10.30pm GMT. Unsure if I'll watch as yet.
might have it on. we're recording debrief so may miss the start.
Hello again :)
Making me hungry which is good after stuffing my face at lunch.. :) Just deciding what to have.
*nods at lukeh in a manner that suggests i can't move*
Ah cool. Not sure what I'm doing tonight, might be blogging or might be watching film/tv.
Evening
nice food?
we have enough stuffing remaining to feed every man, woman and child on this earth. nothing to go with it mind.
stuffing sandwich maybe?
We missed the shuttle docking but it made it.. http://yfrog.com/hs45jbj
bestest chicken
Yay!
Woohoo! chicken is the bestest meat anyways. I look forward to your too full and satisfied to talk debrief ;)
Yesterday we were beaten by fajitas. We can't be beaten two days in a row :)
Ohhh that sneaky food trying to conquer sidepodcast!
moar chicken
Out for carvery. I have mint sauce, all is right with the world.
I'm proud Janna :)
Running ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/02/26/ease-into-10k-week-3/
We're about to start recording the show. Wooo!
yay!
I'm on a Boat/Hotel/Restaurant and he food was divine.
It's a Botel, marvellous
christine provided me with enough wine to last the whole of sidepodradio.
#goodlucklisteningback
I didn't want you to run out! Just trying to be helpful! Humph.
drunk and stuffed with food.
Best debrief ever incoming.
hehe. christine also ignored my red bull ban and drank some anyway.
xx
I haven't had any for a while. It has definitely affected me.
Bouncy bouncy.
:D
but... but... they were mean to webber.
But... but... they do awesome skating.
bug.ger.
ooooh I need to check who won!!
You'll never guess.
*does a slow mo hollywood celebration jump*
:)
Ohh I forgot to mention earlier (that damn ice distracted me), much appreciated for adding the Rubens piccie to the positive post :)
new timo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXldtQfEBw
"no front wing, the future of our car" :)
also has anyone volunteered to write the daily?
Not as far as I know. Are you happy to do it? I can cover if not.
any chance you could? We have a bit of a situation at home with a rather drunk mummy.
Course.
Not an egyptian one, before I get accused of stealing from museums and intoxicating it's inhabitants.
:) :)
:) :) Definitely hits you harder after a break from it.
I made a really average balti, then watched highlights of '99 Road Atlanta ALMS, now may watch NASCAR Nationwide. Or a film. Bit of AC/DC first.
ooh, do you have a link?
Ted's in Mexico to see Sergio
@TedKravitz
'Checo' Perez prepares. Checo is a nickname for any Sergio, apparently. http://twitpic.com/443pdl
Hang on a sec. And look at this from someone I only started following yesterday who is there.
http://twitpic.com/443q1x
http://www.justin.tv/specbrn6#/w/813039760/4
tedNews
I knew something Ted didn't! Ha.
*backs to lurking*
*makes note in calendar*
@Pressdog
Rusty. it's Five HundRED, not hunnert. You're killing me.
:)
I need someone on DanicaWatch. You don't think I can trust Mr C, do you?
No problem :)
Ohh, Botel food was amazing. We ended with a cheese board that makes me want to swear, it was so good [I won't]
Kai landed safely, btw
I want a Czech GP :)
MotoGP has one
What sorts of cheese?
I know, I wonder if Brno would translate well to F1
DP starts 20th
Sadly we're not sure. Very interesting and a good mix. We we're stunned when we met the Chef.
He's only 22!
Evening all
I think it would with a pit upgrade, great track.
I don't think Tilke designed it so that is a good start. It is fairly new for a permanent track. When European Touring Cars and the like went there in the 80s the track was made up of public roads
Hi Steven
Sounds intriguing!
Was a great venue for A1GP...
i have danica radio thanks to pressdog: http://nationwide.nascar.com/nationwide-series/trackpass?8
windows only though.
And we're away
we're green in phoenix.
Not watching Match of the Day to see Christin's teams great result?
she's editing debrief. how did they do?
4-0 or 4-1
4-1, if they were playing Blackburn cos I remember them scoring.
Villa 4 Blackburn 1
Ohhhhhh, I forgot Match of the Day!! Darn it.
#badfan
Stupid live tv. On demand FTW.
toomuch
racingsport:)
Needs more speed sporting
team radio is handy when ads come on.
Bad time to say MotD doesn't go on iPlayer?
That's what I mean. Live TV is stupid.
Something for lou I just noticed on Twitter :D
Oh right. Got ya.
points! away!!
L25 of 200.
Ky Busch leads Edwards by 0.6s. Brad Keselowksi 3rd +5.349 to leader.
DP 18th.
spotter says cars in front of her going flat and she can go faster.
Top N-wide only runner Scott in 7th. Unlike previous years Cup drivers no longer score N-wide points.
Are you just showing off because I said you were no good at DanicaWatch?
well. i'm not getting much done. i may have to stop.
Remember the car-swap in Australia between Button and the V8 Supercar guy? Forget which one.
Tony Stewart's NASCAR team confirmed he will be swapping cars with Lewis Hamilton this year.
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=6162176
link via @MarySmithESPN retweeted by Dex
cooool!
Lewis in NASCAR or Stewart in F1. Not sure which sounds weirder
After Montoya moved to NASCAR and Kimi went to WRC, nothing sounds weird any more..
Kyle Busch just lapped 18th position of the 40 starters, already. That's Danica.
L50/200
Busch leading by 1.5s.
ESPN team radio playout seems broken, really quiet.
Oh dear!
Yellow for debris. Wasn't paying attention so don't know if it is phantom.
Tuned in just before the yellow and I couldn't see any debris
camera's haven't found it.
Didn't see an marshals on the track dealing with it either
IndyCar fans keep saying they want this track back on the schedule.
I was looking for a back up feed and found one showing a midgets race, Crazy racing
http://pa420hightv.yolasite.com/
Looks fun!
Clauson won an Indy Lights ride (ovals only) for winning something in USAC.
Jason Leffler is quite talented because he's in the Nationwide Series race too.
Midgets used to be where a lot of the top Indy and Nascar drivers started
I see what Kai means about having two things running at once so you have something to do during the ads. I learned they were in the midget race during NASCAR ads.
I got bored already. Would be a laugh to drive them though.
I think if all you had was American TV you would need half a dozen TVs so you could watch one that was actually showin a program
They would be great to drive
L100/200
Kyle Busch has led every lap. Edwards, Newman, Harvick, Keselowski, Logano, Bayne.
Danica is 20th and just lapped for a second time.
oh
Interesting to see Bayne right up there again
Booo.
Keslowski in the wall
Yellow - Brad K in the wall.
Might as well make it a power drift contest. But, like with most #Nascar events the real fun is crowd. Just broke out into a Kanye singalong
@HalfShaftBlues (who took that pic earlier)
Just a quick comment to give mr and mrs c *hugggsssss* in advance for tonights podcast. xx
shoo! ...and *hugs*
I'm doing you a special daily too. Specialness for Ms Lou.
Bet that doesn't happen at Monaco.
:D
*huuggsss* thank youuu!
*runs back to do work*
:) :)
DanicaWatch: She's overtaken cars and is now 16th, leading the cars 2 laps down. There are no cars 1 lap down so she'll get the Lucky Dog at the next yellow to get one lap back.
You say that as if there will surely be a yellow flag..
62 laps to go and this is NASCAR.
There will be one with 10 or 15 to go, if there isn't I'll find a hat to eat :) :)
:)
Hello all. Have had a fabulous birthday, last friend just left.
Hope you have all had a great day too :)
yay, very good to hear janna.
Glad you had a good day :)
Hi Janna. Glad you had a great day
I was given chocolates, some iPod speakers which are currently working hard with my iPod Touch on shuffle and an iTunes voucher. What can I spend £15.00 on?
The stands look a bit empty but @RyanMcGeeESPN said tomorrow's race is sold out.
I just had a really good giggle at the absolute nonsense James Allen has produced today, deary me
Ooh, that sounds good.
twitter or blog?
Ah, since then the leader has sent two cars 1 lap down.
He needs to slow down a bit.
blog. Noticed chainbear mentioned it so I went to read and it's just absolute nonsense. He says that women should be in f1 now because there are more buttons on a steering wheel and they are better at multitasking (with no source) so it is now the best time for them to be a driver because of this.
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/f1-debrief-interesting-and-worrying-in-equal-measures
Heh, I can watch CSI, play Football Manager and write a blog post all at the same time, so multitask that Allen.
(So the post may be about Football Manager...)
oh my lord.
yay!
I think they are all thinking the same! He's dominating.
Ferrari want women drivers so women drivers should be in F1.
Woohoo. Something to listen to when I'm having a lie in tomorrow. Off to bed now. Sleep well all.
Good night Janna
Yellow - Bayne hit the wall but has continued to the pits.
Night
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-27th-february-2011
There are only 30 laps to go so it may be better to keep NASCAR here?
green again
sounds like a plan.
12 cars on the lead lap, Sadler got the lucky dog.
=
Ooh something is happening, Edwards is catching Busch
15 to go
Edwards making passing attempts for the lead, almost makes it.. Nobody else in contention.
Danica 17th
i gave up with team radio, back to commentary.
damnit
A slow car and a spinner and they stay green, wow
twas okay, thought that was a yellow
Busch wins after leading all 200 laps, dominant.
not nascar at all!
although flags clearly have nothing to do with safety.
Me too.
I don't think they go yellow after the white flag unless it is big but I was surprised about the slow car.
Cup race is Sunday at 8pm GMT. I guess you have to say Busch and Edwards are looking good.
Danica finished 17th, the first of those 3 laps down.
not terrible, but not as good as daytona
Similar position I think? And the extra lap/two was down to being a short track. Not awful, could do better.
i forget what it was. 14th maybe?
Somewhere in the mid-teens can't remember exactly
Thank you both for Danica watch :)
Cheers for the commenting space. :)
Don't know if anyone will be watching Sunday's race, I might not be home for the start. Tbh if the race is the same as this one I'm not too bothered but the quality of drivers being better might make a better race.